CADINOT
NOMADES
First release: 2005 Running time: 123 minutes DVD format: NTSC
Foreign title: Bazaar Hotel
Twenty years after Harem, Lucas travels to the modern Maghreb where friendship and sensuality are one and the same thing.
Cast: Lucas Samara, Cyann Espaïsy, Majid Akhram, Marc van Dervel, Karim Nadir, Medhi Faviano, Mario Nadir, Badri el Kefi, Sylvain Paka, Jacques Moulin, Ali Fartas, Tristan Giorgino, Roberto Montana, Bruno Antoniali
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SUBVERSION
First release: 2008 Running time: 140 minutes
A provincial town is the stage for this story where Giacomo, a young and beautiful immigrant tries to integrate, accepting all the shit jobs the French refuse to do.
Cast: Angel Damon, Gabriel Dilane, Raul Zambrano, Giacomo Ferreri, Sacha Poliakof, Cyann Espaïsy, Samy Iskander, Harvey Whistle, Max Exe, Miguel de Palma
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LES MINETS SAUVAGES
First release: 1984 Running time: 90 minutes DVD Format: PAL Foreign title: Tough and Tender
Synopsis: Under a grey sky lies a remand centre for young offenders. In this closed world, eight wild youths with troubled pasts attract, confront and provoke each other. Eight young wild cats with violent sexual needs set up their own rule of law. The clan boss home in without pity on the new arrival and submits him to his rule.
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CADINOT CLASSICS III (Sacré Collège & Charmants Cousins)
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ABOUT JEAN-DANIEL CADINOT
He was once a “Gamin de Paris” called Daniel, born on 10th February 1944 in Paris’ XVII arrondissement, his mother and father tailors in Batignolles at the bottom of Montmartre. They clothed men and he would undress them. This isn’t a fairy tail; C’est la Vie!
Dull and botched-up studies but an enormous curiosity, aged 12 he discovered pleasures with boys. A practising Catholic, Daniel went to confession until the day an over-curious priest made him lose his faith and made religion an enemy.
Aged 16 he discovered photography thanks to Richard Avedon and took evening courses at the Ecole National de Photo. To pay for them, he took millions of little jobs – courier, mail sorting for La Poste, assistant at Studio Valois, photo specialist for the stars of the sixties, DJ in a nightclub, decorator’s help chez Mapple, shoe seller – that would later feature in his films.
At 20, Jean Daniel established himself as a revolutionary photographer. He created 24×36 portraits. Did they look amateur? Who cares! His dexterity and spontaneity paid him back. He captured rare expressions that a classical photographer couldn’t have obtained. His clients: young soon-to-be well known actors such as Nathalie Baye and the dancer, Zizi Jeanmaire. It was because of a photo of Zizi that the US revue After Dark noticed him. He was their Paris correspondant and it was then that Daniel became Jean Daniel Cadinot definitively. One is never a prophet in one’s own country and France sulked whilst Germany helped him out. Du & Ich and Him were happy to publish his photographs of his passion: stripped young men.
In 1975 the gay world became liberated. Jean Daniel had the opportunity to edit the first photo-books of male nudes in France. Under the generic title Masculin, 25 albums were published with their own particular ambience, a scenario in 64 pages: Les Anges Pervers, dedicated to Jean Genet, for example. With a run of 250,000 copies, the road was open for cinema.
In 1985, VHS hit the shops. Jean Daniel made his first films on 16mm film. Today he has nearly a hundred to his name.
A furious perfectionist, his goal to sublimate the beauty of man, exalting in all that is remarkable about him and to make his latent eroticism explode forth in photograph or in action. He has no need for Dr. Freud; analyses and steam-releases are all present in his films. His balance and intellectual pleasures are all there.
Despite his provocative airs, Jean-Daniel adores humanity, and men in particular.
Jean Daniel Cadinot, photographer and film-maker, passed away on the 23rd of April aged 64 following a heart attack.
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